Wednesday, March 31, 2010

New wine department at Galleries Lafayette with focus on Bordeaux

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Galleries Lafayette, the big department store in Paris, has just opened a new wine department. It is entirely dedicated to wines from B...

BKWine on MTV3 in Finland

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We were glad to discover that BKWine was recently featured in an article in the Finnish MTV3 on wine and food travel to France. Our Finnish ...

Spanish wine sales fall – crisis support for 50 M€ proposed

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Export of Spanish wines fell with 13.5% in 2009, measured in value. In volume it fell with “only” 9.7%. In other words, not only are people ...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Åsa’s Wine of the Month: Biancone, Renzo Marinai

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My friend was so overwhelmed when she tasted Ronzo Marinai’s chardonnay that she decided to rename her cat Renzo, in homage to the winemaker...
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BKWine Pick: Marie Edith, Paris 15

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Not far from métro Cambronne in the 15th in Paris you find this popular Parisian restaurant on a side street. They have a very affordable 29...
Thursday, March 11, 2010

BKWine TV: Domaine Sainte Croix on BKWine TV

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It’s been a bit quiet on the video front recently here at BKWine. Too much stuff to do… But now we’ve just published a new video on BKW...
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BKWine Pick: Domaine des Terres Georges, Minervois

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Domaine des Terres Georges, Minervois Three years ago we discovered this winery when we were researching our book on the Languedoc wines....

BKWine Pick: Domaine de Pialentou, Gaillac

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Domaine de Pialentou, Gaillac Domaine de Pialentou is a family owned property in the appellation Gaillac in the French South-West, near To...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Chile earthquake report #2: Colchagua badly hit

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Many areas in Chile were very badly hit by the quake. New reports say e.g. that one of Chile’s biggest cities, Concepcion, was moved three m...

Chile earthquake report #1: things are slowly getting back to “normal”

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This is information on the situation in Chilean vineyards from Helen Albano of Brandabout SA, www.brandabout.cl , a marketing and prom...

Welcome to the BKWine Brief nr 80, march 2010

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New issue of the BKWine Brief out. Here's the intro: It has been an eventful few weeks lately. Most dramatic, and tragic, is the eart...
Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Prizes to wine bloggers

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The wine show Salon des Vins de la Loire gives since a few years (or is this the first time?) prizes to the best wine blogs. It is French sp...
Monday, March 08, 2010

BKWine TV: [E] Jon Bowen at Domaine Sainte Croix

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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Jon and Elizabeth Bowen make wine at the Domaine Sainte Croix in the Languedoc region ...

Not fun in Champagne

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As expected 2009 was a difficult year for Champagne – the wine district that otherwise over recent time has suffered very little (none,...
Sunday, March 07, 2010

Today’s scoop

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We read in The Guardian a long (it feels) article about a wine expert called Tim Hanni who, according to what the Guardian says, recommends ...
Saturday, March 06, 2010

A big (BIG) wine bottle

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But we don’t mean just big, we mean REALLY, REALLY BIG. Want Wines in Liaoning in China has produced a bottle containing 1,850 litres of win...

Don’t put monkeys in the microwave oven

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It may sound obvious. But in Sweden there is a bag-in-box wine called Three Monkeys, and it might not be wise to do even with that. Some bri...

Catastrophe relief organisations refuse donations from wine importers

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In the newsletter WoW News we read that several catastrophe relief organisations in Sweden have refused or returned donations from wine impo...

How to turn water (?) into wine; or how to turn 67 million bottles into 160 million

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Perhaps they hoped no one would notice (although it is rather ‘bulky’). It appears that Sieur d’Arques in Limoux in the south of France...
Friday, March 05, 2010

Cork dogs to fight TCA?

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Corked wines is still a problem. It is often the fault of the foul smelling chemical TCA. Even if the situation seems to have improved ...